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I bear orders from the captain, make you ready, quick and soon...

By jollyroger on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 1:48am |

Let the Blue Dogs bay. Let the ethnic lobbies lob choriza blintzes. Their flicker of efficacy is dying. To quote one 28 year old lass, as heard on NPR just after the election: "I'm ready to do whatever my president...

Hannity, O'Reilly, Cavuto, Barnes to Prez: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMORAZCog5A">"Happy Talk, keep talkin' happy talk"</a>

By jollyroger on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 11:11pm |

To make this post, I am obliged to reveal something not entirely admirable about myself, but so be it. Since the election, I have been drawn to spend more and more time in an orgy of schadenfreude, listening to the...

Doubts about evolution? Surrender your registration--you are too dumb to vote.

By jollyroger on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 10:19pm |

This is so profoundly depressing. As a special cultural event co-incident with the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, we are treated to a veritable blizzard of news so disturbing as to beggar belief. Reading the instant report, purporting to show...

A-Rod Busted! Youth learn lesson: " 'Anonymous test, samples destroyed' my ass"

By jollyroger on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 7:22pm |

Those among us (and there are few...) who went to our *last live ball game at Ebbets Field, we who hate the Yankees more than Satan and all his works, will be rejoicing at the immanent disappearance of Alex Rodrigues...

Just following orders...

By jollyroger on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 11:40am |

Coming full circle, Israel would now offer, as an excuse for the war crimes committed by it’s agents, the formulaic Nazi excuse that failed to forestall the hanging of *Eichmann. It is impossible to listen to even ten minutes of...

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Exit Bush, trailing Sulphur and White Phosphorus.

By jollyroger on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 2:09am |

As if to verify his *demonic bona fides it would seem that G-Dub’s final turn on the geopolitical stage will be as the enabler for and supplier of Israel’s use of this century’s napalm-on-steroids, white phosphorus. …if packed into an...

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The 1948 Plebescite on the future of British Mandatory Palestine. Better late than never.

By jollyroger on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 2:35am |

In its succession to the Ottoman Empire, Britain received sovereignty over a Semitic population in a unified territory called Palestine (yes, it was…). When the collapsing British Empire acceded to the wishes of one Semitic tribe to sever the previously...

Divest Now!

By jollyroger on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 3:12am |

One of my few media moments of fame came from standing during the anti-apartheid demos at Cal side by side with some technician from KQED,. As a result, the voiceover for numberless teasers for the resulting documentary had me chanting...

Ceasefire, Israeli def.:We cease firing at your soldiers, and start starving your children instead

By jollyroger on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:30pm |

Uri Avnery draws our attention to the fact that shooting off the odd unaimed rocket is just one way to break a ceasefire. In fact, the Israelis “broke” it the first day they turned off the electricity so the Palestinians...

You cannot guard Prez in the open floor--he will look right and go left. Watch his feet, not his eyes.

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 1:13am |

I have decided to take Joe Biden’s advice. Remember, when he said that Prez would be tested, yadda yadda yadda, and what he might do might seem fucked up to us but it was really going to be the cool...

Direct Treasury to Consumer loans, the remedy for no-lending banks and their toadies at the Fed.

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:38am |

We are going through absurd hoops simply to avoid disintermediating the banks and the federal reserve (which is owned by them). We build in all this vigorish, supposedly to compensate the banks for rationalizing the credit markets, and then when...

Josh Marshall: Progressive Queenmaker. (Who knew??)

By jollyroger on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:35am |

Any TPM afficianadi also listeners to NPR will have noticed how Elizabeth Warren (dare I say, our own Elizabeth Warren is all over (including a spot on *Fresh Air!!I) Anyway, according to Prof. Warren, it all started with a phone...

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OBAMA 2016! Because the world needs a good president...

By jollyroger on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 5:36pm |

Ok, ok, I admit to residual giddyness attendant upon watching Prez announce the appointment of, inter alia a Nobel Laureate teammate. And even though there may be small-minded and carping cynics who smell a whiff of "today America, tomorrow...

Why doesn't the UAW buy GM (market cap:$4B) with a loan from the pension fund (assets $104B)? Somebody, please help me....

By jollyroger on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 7:37pm |

Upon the temporary cessation of the vertigo induced by contemplating a world in which the whole damn company (factories, inventories, etc), is worth less than Avon Cosmetics, I wrestle with the following conundrum: Why doesn’t the UAW loan itself some...

DON'T WANNA "SPREAD THE WEALTH"? I GOT YOUR FLAT TAX RIGHT HERE, A$$HOLE.

By jollyroger on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 2:41pm |

TPM cAFE:tHROTTLING DIALOG AT EVERY TURN...

By jollyroger on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 6:55pm |

Not content with transforming relatively functional (if admittedly slow) forum interface into a lumbering travesty that makes it impossible even to track ones own posts back more than a few days, the stalwarts at TOM Central, apparently, have imposed a...

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The REALLY Great Escape, 2008 (Steve McQueen as Mullah Omar, James Garner as Baitullah Mehsud

By jollyroger on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 7:01pm |

Are you kidding me? In this version of the movie (Oliver Stone, pick up the phone...) everyone gets clean away.Freedom's on th' march fer sure...What kind of government is susceptible to this sort of evidence of open irrelevance? Someone who...

Let's raise the gas tax $2.00/gallon and pay directly to the wealthiest.

By jollyroger on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 2:12pm |

*"We are the laughing stock of Europe because we keep [gasoline] taxes so cheap," notes Matthew Simmons, chairman of a Houston-based investment bank for the energy industry, Simmons & Co. InternationalA modest proposal:Jumping off from a suggestion broached by (!)...

Michael Corleone to Hyman Roth::"In MY HOME! In MY BEDROOM!...IN THE FUCKIN' GREEN ZONE!"

By jollyroger on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 2:30am |

Am astonishing yawn has greeted the *first death of American soldiers by rocket fire in the Green Zone on Sunday.Not the insinuation into general commerce of a stealthy suicide bomber, not the furtive emplacement of a booby trap (IED), but...

Roger Stone: Punk. Sets up prick prosecutor, makes cool blind brother Gov...

By jollyroger on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 6:00am |

If we wanted any better proof that the great right wing conspiracy is a caravan of clowns, consider this:Assuming (<i>arguendo,/i>) the truth of the story crediting Republican bad boy Roger Stone with letting the dogs out, so to speak, and...

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